Guess what?
One of my besties read my blog. Finally someone I know read it and wrote to me about it and the funny thing is I have gone totally off blogging and haven't been here for weeks. But Biddo may have just inspired me to give it a crack again...her new blog is already cracking and it looks so pretty :)
I told her that I can't get the tone of this blog right. I don't know if I want to be funny, if I want to take the piss, if I want to be all serious and homely and mumsey...my tone seems to change each time I read a blog on my list. The other thing I've been thinking about since I fell pregnant is that I often write in this blog like it's a diary BUT it will never be that because other people (okay not many other people, but others all the same!) read it and you don't go sharing your diary around, do you? If I was truly blogging diary style, my pregnancy would have appeared on this blog in January when I found out. Because it's internet land though it stayed a secret until after the 'safe' mark.
It's also weird because I don't know who's reading it or when...my aunt read this the other day and I nearly died of embarrassment, she must have thought I was so full of myself!
Because I haven't blogged in ages I've removed the link to this blog from my facebook page and my forum page as I thought I was going to let it die. Watching Biddo get into blogging though has reminded me why I was sucked in at the beginning...it's so addictive when you get on a roll. So maybe I'll give it another crack and see how it goes.
Over and out. For now...
Hello! And welcome back!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about blogging... I enjoy it, and it is addictive, but I still haven't quite figured out my purpose, and I'm never quite sure how much to share of myself.
Thanks Carls. It seems that the inspiration thing is mutual! I struggled with finding my tone/purpose too. I had to think hard about who my audience was and what the purpose of my blog was. I have decided to keep mine at 'invitation only' level so that I can write specific details without me or my child without being cyber stalked (paranoid?!). I also decided that my purpose was to record all the special things that happen in our life rather than to write about how I'm feeling/coping (cos no poor sucker deserves to hear all that!). So I am writing purely for an audience of close friends and family, including Madeleine. It's tricky, but I agree that it definitely needs to be decided and stuck to.
ReplyDeleteHaving said all that, I absolutely love your blog. You write so well and I think you should just keep doing what you're doing cos it's fantastic.
Love you!
Biddy